How to get APNS certificates

Learn how to generate and export APNS certificate to enable push notifications for your app.

Written by Andrew Sennik Updated over a week ago

To be able to send push notifications to the users of your privately distributed app, you need to provide us with APNS certificate. Below is a step-by-step instruction on how to generate and export it:

1. Go back to the developer account and select the app from App IDs and click "Edit".

2. Scroll Down to the "Production SSL certificates" section and click "Create Certificate".

3. Click "Continue".

4. Choose the certificate file created from Keychain Access in the previous section and click "Continue".

5. Download the Development Certificate and click Done to finish the process.

Generate APNS .p12 certificate

1. Double click the Development certificate generated in the previous step to add it to Keychain Access. Go to Keychain Access, select login keychain and My Certificate from the side menu. Find app certificate and right click to export it.